Interview with John Blackmon, July 8, 2008

Collection: Reflections on Georgia Politics Oral History Collection

Dublin Core

Subject

State governments--Officials and employees

United States--Appropriations and expenditures, State

Description

John Blackmon discusses attending law school at Emory University, working in the state law department and in the Georgia Revenue Department. He mentions his experiences working under Governor Lester Maddox as state revenue commissioner and explains how he improved the state tax structure by modeling it more closely after the federal one.

Creator

John Blackmon

Bob Short

Date

2008-07-08

Identifier

RBRL220ROGP-038

Coverage

Georgia

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Repository

Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

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Citation

John Blackmon and Bob Short, “Interview with John Blackmon, July 8, 2008,” UGA Special Collections Libraries Oral Histories, accessed November 21, 2024, https://russelllibraryoralhistory.org/RBRL220ROGP/RBRL220ROGP-038.